I'll starting by admitting I was previously quite naive and misinterpreted the definition of meaning of this. Anarchy was never anything I was exposed too, researched or knew enough of about. The only exposure I ever had to the idea was movies like V for Vendetta or other pop culture references and was never anything I though of any further.

I finally got off my ass and took a look deeper down the rabbit hole and really feel like this idea fits perfectly with my current believe system and I want to share this realization with everyone.

But for years, since reaching adulthood and joining the rat race, I craved for another option then the current system. I fantasized about other option then the current political system and hierarchical structures of everything. I moved to a large rural piece of land and followed my dreams and passions to try to be more self -sustainable and independent and tried to get away from as much of it as I could. I spend hours discussing with my friends, cousins and family if there was only a way where were could just form our own group, live off the land and not take part or be bothered with it all.

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Of course part of this journey brought me to silver stacking, then of course to steemit and the world of cryptocurrencies. Through my time here on steemit of course I started following as many like minded homesteaders, permaculturealists, gardeners, foragers, meditaters, etc. This group began to be much of my favorite blogs to follow, read and learn from. This is a group of really sharing, loving and peaceful bloggers, so of course I was confused when I read many of them discussion anarchism. Of course it didn't fit with my previous assumptions of the term.

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This is when I finally got inspired to find some time to look further into this and of course the first stop was good 'ol wikipedia. Who provided the following definition.

Anarchy is the condition of a society, entity, group of people, or a single person that rejects hierarchy. The word originally meant leaderlessness, but in 1840 Pierre-Joseph Proudhon adopted the term in his treatise What Is Property? to refer to a new political philosophy: anarchism, which advocates stateless societies based on voluntary associations. In practical terms, anarchy can refer to the curtailment or abolition of traditional forms of government and institutions. It can also designate a nation (or anywhere on earth that is inhabited) that has no system of government or central rule. Anarchy is primarily advocated by anarchists, individuals who propose replacing government with voluntary institutions.

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So that's just the intro, I'm sure it's not perfect, but the striking thing to me, was no mention of violent overthrow of the government, like my flawed belief.

In fact after reading the entire definition this is the only mention of such I have found,

Some anarchists oppose all forms of aggression, supporting self-defense or non-violence (anarcho-pacifism), while others have supported the use of militant measures, including revolution and propaganda of the deed, on the path to an anarchist society.

As I continued to read the definition the very last paragraph was the most striking to me personally,

Anarchists have been involved in a wide variety of communities. While there are only a few instances of mass society "anarchies" that have come about from explicitly anarchist revolutions, there are also examples of "intentional communities" founded by anarchists.

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Now that's speaking my language, intentional communities is something I'm much more familiar with and exactly that kind of thing I find myself gravitating too.

Of course like everything now I need to take a much deeper delve and learn everything I can about the topic, but so far this sounds like exactly what I've been looking for, and something I want to identify with.

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